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The 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series season begins with the Firestone Grand
Prix of St. Petersburg on the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla.

St. Petersburg has hosted an IndyCar race each year since 2005. This event has
been the season-opener in the series the past four years as well as in 2009.
The inaugural G.P. of St. Petersburg was a CART sanctioned race and won by
Paul Tracy on Feb. 23, 2003.

Helio Castroneves holds the record for most victories in the G.P. of St.
Petersburg with three (2006, '07 and '12). Will Power, the reigning IndyCar
champion and Castroneves' teammate at Team Penske, is the only other driver
with multiple wins in this race (2010 and '14).

Tony Kanaan has seven top-5 finishes in St. Petersburg, which is more than any
other driver. Kanaan has yet to win a race at this circuit. His best finish
there is second, which came in '05.

The winner in St. Petersburg has gone on to win the IndyCar championship three
times: Dan Wheldon (2005), Dario Franchitti (2011) and Power (2014).

This race has been won from the pole position just twice: Castroneves (2007)
and Power (2010). Power had won four consecutive poles in St. Pete from
2010-13. Takuma Sato snapped his streak of pole wins there last year.

When Graham Rahal took the checkered flag in St. Pete on April 6, 2008, he
became the youngest driver ever to win an IndyCar race. Rahal was 19 years and
93 days old when he scored his first career victory in the series.

The next race is the April 12 inaugural running of the Indy Grand Prix of
Louisiana at NOLA Motorsports Park, located just outside of New Orleans.